“Men designate women as the sole caretakers of life; they must walk miles each day across scorched terrain to find clean water. This concept is written directly onto the woman’s body—found in the permanent ache of her spine from carrying fifty-pound jerrycans under a blistering sun, the dust that coats her throat, and the raw blisters that score the soles of her feet. They must perform impossible domestic acrobatics to stretch diminishing food supplies to feed their children, often starving themselves so that others can eat. A woman’s stomach remains empty so that the patriarchal family unit can survive another day in the ruins. They care for the sick, the elderly, and the dying as climate-driven diseases spread and public infrastructure rots. As imperialist capital bleeds nature dry, the physical energy and labor required to sustain human life expands exponentially. The more the planet burns, the harder women must work just to keep their families from sliding into the grave. Yet, the male ruling class hoards and violently tightens their grip over wealth and resources through their domination of capital accumulation. Female labor performs the work that keeps the species alive, while men monopolize the authority that dictates the conditions of that survival. They have made women the shock absorbers of a burning world while they sit safely atop the wreckage.” Read “Climate Collapse and the Capitalist Mutilation of the Displaced Female Body" by Fatima Amir in Total Woman Victory: Our Earth, Ourselves at http://totalwomanvictory.com and on Substack at https://totalwomanvictory.substack.com/p/climate-collapse-and-the-capitalist!
